Miss America 2013 Winner Mallory Hagan Gun Control Robot

Beauty and brains. No wait… scratch that, just beauty:

Her reaction to winning (pictured below), was pretty much the same as my reaction to her stupid answer. The answer, which made basically no sense considering the question that was asked. Gun safety classes? Education? Proper use? Longer waiting period? WTF?

Coincidence that she was “Miss New York” before she won the national title? hah.

I’m thinking the police should stop shooting people, and do more educating instead. You know… because we need to give criminals a chance, they are people too.

Actually Honey boo boo, Toddlers and Tiaras, and shows like them are terrible representations of pageantry. Many of the girls in the major systems, if they even competed as children, came from natural pageants, not the glitz pageants used by television producers to get better ratings. Natural pageants are a test of intellect and confidence while promoting fitness, education, and charity. Personally I can’t stand Honey boo boo because it falsely convinces people like you that pageants are for stupid girls when in fact you have to be quite smart to win. For example, Mallory Hagan, the girl you are all calling stupid, happens to have studied biomedical science. Even though she transfered schools and switched majors, she is part of the Presidential Honors Program. And now, thanks to the Miss America system, she has plenty of scholarship money to complete her education at the end of her reign. Why don’t all of you check your facts before you belittle someone? She worked hard to get where she is and she is not stupid by any stretch of the imagination.

Actually this is the most well thought out and articulated comment you will get from an average New Yorker. Good for her, toeing the state line. If she said anything different New York would strip her of her title. I cannot believe how people think here. We have one of the lowest shooting rates in the country but now we need to have the most restrictive control. Numbers do not matter here we need to ban “assault weapons and high-capacity clips”. But then asked about actual numbers, the definition of “assault weapon” or what the hell is a “high-capacity clip” it’s all blank stares.

That’s not likely, there is not any necessarily correct answer to a judge’s question. Girls who are trained for pageantry are encouraged to give their honest opinions in the interview and during the on stage question.

Like a Miss America candidate would “have fun” with you. They are classy ladies and are stripped of their titles and scholarship winnings if found to have weak morals. So I highly doubt that someone who values their education as much as anyone who has made it that far in the Miss America system would throw all of that hard work away to “have fun” with someone like you. And honestly, you will never find brass with more value than a Miss America so I am genuinely sorry you feel that way.

“I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.” –Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:278

Also the gunman who shot-up those kids at Sandy Hook tired to buy another rife, but state law of CT requires a waiting period for certain firearms. So the he didn’t buy it and maybe put to use as the nut job plan to.
She knew that and said that was one possible solution.

According to a report at nbcnews.com Adam Lanza, who murdered twenty children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School yesterday, had tried to buy a rifle at a Dick’s Sporting Good store on Tuesday. “Adam Lanza, 20, went to a Dick’s Sporting Goods store in Danbury, Conn., on Tuesday to buy the weapon, but was turned down because he didn’t want to undergo a background check or abide by the state’s waiting period for gun sales, the officials said.” Wait, what? We’re so confused. We thought, based on the incessant on-air emoting of of the usual anti-2A talking heads that we need more laws to prevent someone like Lanza from buying a gun. More laws that would — in the vast majority of cases — make it harder for law-abiding citizens to buy firearms, too. See, we’d heard that “the reality is that in the United States of America in 2012, it’s easier in many states to rent an automobile — to buy an automatic weapon than it is to rent an automobile. It’s more demanding.” Apparently we were misinformed.